Presidential M&M's

After Kennedy's assassination, the large quantities of cigarettes distributed by the White House and Air Force One became a tradition.

[1][2][3] At the 1988 Moscow Summit with Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Mars, Incorporated supplied customized M&M's for gifts,[1] which First Lady Nancy Reagan gave to Russian children.

[4] After the summit, Nancy Reagan saw an opportunity to ban all smoking on Air Force One, replacing the few remaining cigarette supplies aboard.

[1] President Barack Obama personally handed out packs of presidential M&M's to guests.

[8] In 2014, Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy gave President Obama facsimiles of three 500-year-old historical works.